Collocations for conscience - noun

clean (esp. AmE), clear, easy, good
How can you do your job with a clean conscience?
I have a clear conscience.

bad, guilty, troubled, uneasy
a dying man with a guilty conscience

civic, environmental, moral, political, social
consumers with an environmental conscience
a government with no social conscience

religious
a seminal conference on religious conscience and poverty

tender
I never knew a more tender conscience on every point of duty.

collective
the collective conscience of American business

individual
It should be a matter of individual conscience.

have
He had no conscience about taking his brother's money.

appease, assuage, clear, ease, salve, soothe
We assuaged our conscience by telling ourselves that they would be worse off without us.
To clear my conscience and make it up to you, I'd like to take you out to dinner.
After the meal she spent a week dieting to salve her conscience.

prick, trouble
appeal to, arouse, awaken, rouse, stir
shock
a bill which has shocked the conscience of every middle-class community

wrestle with
He wrestled with his conscience all night long.

follow
I have only ever followed my conscience.

examine
At the end of each day, examine your conscience.

guide sb/sth, tell sb sth
He felt his conscience telling him to apologize.
It's important to let your conscience guide your decisions.

bother sb, prick sb (esp. BrE), trouble sb (esp. BrE)
Her conscience was bothering her a little.
Her conscience pricked her every time she thought of how cruel she had been to Kirby.

dictate sth
My conscience dictates that I resign.

on your conscience
I'm sure she has something on her conscience.
It was on his conscience that he hadn't called her.

an act of conscience (esp. AmE)
His decision appears to have been an act of conscience.

an attack of conscience
Best came forward because of an attack of conscience.

a crisis of conscience
freedom of conscience, liberty of conscience
in all conscience, in conscience, in good conscience (= honestly)
We cannot in all conscience refuse to help.

let conscience be your guide
a matter of conscience
This question is a matter of individual conscience.

man/woman/people of conscience
How could people of conscience allow this to happen?

a pang of conscience, a prick of conscience (BrE), a twinge of conscience (esp. BrE)
I had a sudden pang of conscience that I really ought to tell the truth.

the right of conscience, the rights of conscience (both AmE)
individual rights and rights of conscience on our campuses of higher education

the voice of conscience
She refused to listen to the voice of conscience.